June 2017

Nuvola Player, cloud music integration for Linux desktop, has reached the 4.5 release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04 and higher using the flatpak packages. Nuvola Player 4 was forked from the release 3 with many…

Google has just updated its photo sharing service — Google Photos. The company has rolled out two new features which had been announced at the Google I/O in May — suggested sharing and shared libraries. “We take lots of photos and videos…

PC gaming can be frightfully expensive if you get carried away, and that's easy to do given the industry's focus on high-end products. Finding well-rounded hardware at more affordable price points is relatively tricky, particularly in the…

Do you use different web browsers on your computer? Managing bookmarks can be a tedious task. You bookmarked something on Chrome and now you want it on Firefox, going back to Chrome and copying URL is one hell of a task. You should…

Apple today updated its developer news site to remind developers about 64-bit requirements for both Mac and iOS apps. Apple has required all new iOS apps and app updates submitted to the iOS App Store to support 64-bit since June of 2015.…

Amazon has just announced 30 hours of deals starting on July 10, and the Thrifter team will be covering it all! Prime Day 2017 will be spread across three days, starting Monday, July 10, at 9 p.m. EST and going until 3 a.m. Wednesday, July…

Good news, everybody! The mobile game Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow is now available, developer Jam City announced Thursday. The title, which will launch on both Google Android and Apple iOS, is based on the long-running animated show…

Rumors about a new Apple device — smart glasses — have been buzzing since the start of the year. While the company, as usual, has been secretive about its upcoming products, recent developments like Apple’s recent purchases of eye-tracking…

The LXDE desktop environment is one of the best Linux desktops to use if you’re on a PC with low resources. Granted, all of the lightweight desktops out there aspire to be good for low-resource machines. However, LXDE is the undisputed…

Ever wondered what you could do with your smartphone if it stopped perennially running out of battery? Ever suffered from a smartphone running out of battery, when you needed the most? If you have, a new prototype, which can function…

A small number of people are unable to backup their data on Apple’s iCloud. Apple says that only less than 1 percent of its users have been affected by the outage, which has been going since the early morning of June 27. The main problem…

My main Windows 10 desktop workstation is a dual monitor setup. It’s set to fall into sleep mode automatically when I am not using it for certain period of time. It works quite well most of the time but sometimes after waking up, all…

ScreenCloud is an open-source screenshot sharing application consists of a cross-platform client and a sharing website. With plugins, the app also supports uploading to other online services, e.g., FTP server, Imgur, and Dropbox.…

In this article, we are going to provide you with useful examples of Linux grep command including the two variant programs: egrep and fgrep. grep (global regular expression print) is used to search for text strings and regular…

After launching seven Ryzen processors based on the new Zen microarchitecture, AMD has turned its focus to the data center by releasing the Epyc 7000-series chips. This Zen-based CPU strategy is being further augmented by the announcement…

The car audio and navigation systems company Alpine today announced that its first aftermarket CarPlay wireless receiver, dubbed iLX-107, is now available for purchase in the United States, priced a bit on the high side at $900 a pop. “The…

We know that iOS 11 marks the end of the road for legacy 32-bit apps and now we’re learning about Apple’s new 64-bit requirement for Mac apps. In an advisory on Dev Center yesterday, the Cupertino giant announced that macOS High Sierra…

When you're listening to music, you want to feel like the sound is all around you. The speakers in your Mac are pretty impressive for being so compact, but they never quite give you that three-dimensional sound that you crave without a…

Instagram today announced some much-needed new tools to help users of its mobile app enjoy the service without toxic comments and spam. One is a new filter designed to block certain offensive comments and the other is basically a spam…